Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With Mighty ‘Grey’s’
ABC got top spot in Thursday prime ratings, Grey’s Anatomy pacing the net to a 1.0 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That beat the 0.8/4 put up by CBS.
Grey’s did its usual 1.5, Station 19 a flat 0.9 and For the People fell 17% to 0.5.
On CBS, it was mostly reruns. Comedy repeats led into the Fam finale up 14% at 0.8, before a SWAT rerun.
NBC got a 0.6/3. Superstore grew 13% to 0.9 and AP Bio was a flat 0.5. Brooklyn Nine-Nine rated a level 0.6 and Abby’s slid 20% down to 0.4, then Law & Order: SVU dropped 13% to 0.7.
Fox rated a 0.5/2. A Gotham repeat led into The Orville at a level 0.6.
Telemundo and Univision did their usual 0.4/2s.
The CW got a 0.3/2. Supernatural went up 33% to 0.4 and In the Dark did a flat 0.2.
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Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.